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Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871)
- From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 09:08:28 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/6] Implement the %OB specifier - alternative month names (bug 10871)
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- Reply-to: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
2.06.2016 09:03 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> > Sounds nice, I will
> > have to read more about it. (Any hints, links etc. are welcome.)
>
> Alas, I don't know of any documentation for that, you can look in the source
> code tho. (I'm by no means an expert in this stuff, alas.)
Source code is fine. Since you don't know of any documentation I will
not waste my time searching for it.
>
> > What if a programmer, for example an author of cal(1), just rebuilds
> > the unmodified source while it should be modified? Is there a way to
> > tell them they should at least verify their source code?
>
> Not really. I wouldn't worry much about that problem, to be honest.
That's fine for me, too. Please note that distros rebuild the packages
from source for each release, that means that changing the source code
of cal(1) will be needed. As I said before, I'll be happy to contact
these projects and help them port to the new format.
Regards,
Rafal